Waiting Rooms Quotes

• Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.

  Karen Chance

  Hell, Dumped, Waiting

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.51, Penguin

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• If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

  Jules Renard

  Space, House, Would Be

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• Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Faces

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• The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

  Christopher Moore

  Doctors, Boring, Timeless

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.57, Zondervan

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• Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

  Jenna Morasca

  Waiting, Rooms, Ominous

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• She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Years, Wind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Waiter

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• Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Rigor Mortis, Doing Nothing

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Thinking, Wish

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• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Immortality, Robes

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

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• When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Heart, Giving, Helping

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Broke, Wrists, Kill Me

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.279, Vintage Canada

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• What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

  Thomas Harris

  Eye, Mind, Culture

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hate, Chance, Built

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• Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

  Joy Fielding

  Home, Florida, Age

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Wall, Kids, Makeup

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• Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Waiting, Rooms, Destination

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• I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.

  Richard Branson

  Night, People, Dying

  "George Negus interviews CEO and founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 2, 2008.

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• I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hate, Home, Destiny

  "Marina Abramovic Makes Sundance Shut Up". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

  Simon Hughes

  Doctors, Atmosphere, Strange

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• I went in for an audition [for As Good As It Gets], but the audition was with James L. Brooks. I was the first girl in that morning, and there was a whole waiting room of girls waiting to read for it. So I did my audition, and he asked me to step outside. So I stepped outside, and when he asked me to come back in, he looked at me, and he said, "Well, I'm very excited to work with you on set." And I was, like, "What?" I thought it was a Hollywood blow-off.

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Morning, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

  Rick Warren

  Grief, Fishing, People

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.

  T.I.

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

  Lorin Stein

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Doctors, Florida, Oklahoma

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